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A. F. HARRISON.

EGG COUNT REGISTER.

No. 400,082. Patented Mar. 26, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN F. HARRISON, OF GREELEY, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND \VILLIAM II. HARRISON, OF SAME PLACE.

EGG-COUNT REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,082, dated March 26, 1889. Application filed December 7, 1888. Serial No. 292,895. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIN FURNAS HAR- RIsON, of Greeley, in the county of Anderson and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Egg-Count Register, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In counting eggs or other articles it frequently occurs that the counters attention is drawn oif by the entrance of customers or by calls to other duties, and consequently it is at times exceedingly difficult to carry the count. It is to obviate this difficulty that I have designed the count-register forming the I 5 subject-matter of this application.

The invention consists in the particular construction and arrangement of parts, all as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

2 5 Figure 1 is an end view of a case or receivin gvessel, representing the same as it appears when provided with my improved count-register. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the register, a portion of the case being shown in connec- 0 tion therewith; and Fig. 0 is a cross-sectional view of the register, the view being taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Although the several parts of my count registering attachment might be secured directly to the receiving case or vessel, I prefer to secure such parts to a bed-plate, 10, such plate being arranged so that it may be secured to the receiving case or vessel by screws or other fastening devices. To this bed-p1ate 10, I connect a disk, 11, formed with a notched peripheral face, each notch being numbered, as shown in the drawings, and at one side of the disk 11,1 mount a disk, 12, of similar form, the disk 11, however, slightly overlapping the disk 12.

Above the disks 11 and 12, I arrange a le ver, 13, that is pivotally connected to the bedplate 10 at 11, and to the end of this lever 13 I connect a spring arm or finger, 15, which bears closely against the peripheral face of the disk 11, the point of the finger engaging the notches of the disk, so that at each depression of the lever the disk will be advanced one notch, all retrograde movement of the disk being prevented by a pawl, 16, that is held against the edge of the disk by a spring, 17.

To the inner side face of the disk 11, I secure a pin or projection, 2, which engages one of the teeth of the disk 12 at every revo- 6o lution of the disk 11, and in order that the lever 13 may not extend to any undue extent above the edge of the receiving vessel orcase (which vessel or case is shown at 20) I recess the upper edge of the plate 10, as at a, a corresponding recess, Z), being formed in the side wall of the case or vessel 20.

In operation the disk 2 is moved so that its zero-mark will register with an indicator,

0, and the disk 11 is moved so that the springfinger of the lever 13 will rest within the zeronotch of said disk, the pin 2 at this time being in position so as to just clear the disk 12.

In counting eggs it is usual to grasp three in each hand and deposit them within the re- 7 5 ceiving-case, and in so depositing them the lever 13 is depressed, thus advancing the disk 11. one notch, a spring 16 acting to return the lever 13 to the position in which it is shown in Fig. 1 immediately after the pressure brought to bear upon the lever is removed, all undue upward motion of the lever being prevented by a stop, 17, which overlaps the lever and serves as a support for the spring 10. After the disk 11 has been advanced one revolution, the pin or projection 2 will engage one of the teeth of the disk 12, and such disk will be advanced in the direction of. its arrow one notch, thus bringing the numeral 1 in register with the indicator- 0 mark 0, a like ad vance of the disk 12 being brought about at every revolution of the disk 11. In this way the party counting the eggs or other articles always secures an accurate register of his count, and can leave his work of counting at any time.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An egg-count register consisting of a case, 20, the toothed and numbered disks 11 and 7 "Wan 12, slightly overlapping each other, the disks 17 for holding the pawl in engagement with 11 being provided with the pin 2, the pivoted said disk, substantially as herein shown and lever 13, provided with the spring-arm 15, endescribed.

gaging the teeth of the disk 11, the stop 17 ALVIN F. HARRISON. 5 projecting over the lever, the spring 16, arlVitnesses:

ranged beneath the lever, the pawl 16, en- L. U. HARRISON,

gaging the teeth of the disk 11, and the spring J. O. VIDEMORE. 

